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Sennylt (exiled king of Galloway)..................early
500's followed by...
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Neithon ap Sennylt and then...
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Rhun ap Neithon
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COEL
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Mannanan.......................................fl. c. 500's
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Llywarch the Old (in South Rheged 570-575)..c.
560-c. 582 ? d. c. 595
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To Ulster ?...........................,,,..........early
580's ?
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To Dal Riada (The Scots).......................582-
?
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Diwg...........................................fl. c. 600's
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To Northumbria.................................620-633
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Gwyar..........................................fl. c. 630's
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Teigid.........................................fl. c. 670's
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Algwyn.........................................fl. c. 700's
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Sandde.........................................fl. c. 730's
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Elidyr.........................................fl. c. 760's
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Gwriad.........................................fl. c. 800's
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Mervyn the Freckled (Gwynedd 825-844).......
< 825-c. 836 d. 844
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VIKING KINGDOM
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Godred MacFergus........................fl. c. 836-853
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Ketil Flatnose..............................c. 853-c. 866
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Helgi Ketilsson.............................c. 866-c. 870
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Tryggvi........................................fl. c. 870
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Asbjorn Skerjablesi.............................d. c. 899
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To Dublin...................................c.
900-902
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To York........................................902-c.
942
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Gebeachan................................. ?
-c. 937
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Macragnall I........................c. 937 ?
-c. 942
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To Dublin...................................c.
942-c. 972
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Magnus MacHarald........................... c. 972-977
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Guthred I......................................977-989
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To Orkney......................................989-c.
1000
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Ragnald........................................fl. c. 1000
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Kenneth........................................fl. c. 1005
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To Orkney..................................c.
1005-1014
- Brodir.............................fl. 1010's-1014 with...
- Ospak..............................fl. 1010's-1014
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Sven........................................... d. 1034
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To Dublin......................................
? -1038
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To Orkney..................................c.
1038-1065
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Margad MacRagnald........................1052-c.
1061 d. 1065
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Murchaid MacDiarmit......................1061-1070
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Fingal........................................1070-1079
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CROVAN
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Godred I......................................1079-1095
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Lagman........................................1095-1096 d. 1111
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Olav I.............................................1096
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Donald........................................1096-1098
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To Orkney.....................................1098-1103
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Olav II the Red...............................1103-1153
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Godred II the Black...........................1153-1158 d. 1187
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(MacDONALD) These
are ancestors to this clan, named as such after 1250.
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Sumerled (Lord of the Isles 1140-64)..........1158-1164
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Ragnald the Usurper................................1164 d. c. 1210
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CROVAN
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Godred II the Black (restored)................1164-1187
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Ragnald I.....................................1187-1226
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Olav III the Black............................1226-1237 with...
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Godred III the Brown...............................1230
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Harald I......................................1237-1248
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Ragnald II.........................................1249
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Harald II.....................................1249-1250
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Ivarr.........................................1250-1252
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Magnus........................................1252-1265
LATER PERIODS
The next 68 years saw a rapidly shifting series
of take-overs as England and Scotland vied for supremacy on the Isle, as
a part of the larger conflict between the two nations during the War of
the Scottish Succession. Here is the sequence of changes in feudal authority:
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To Scotland...................................1265-1290
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To England....................................1290-1313
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To Scotland...................................1313-1317
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To England....................................1317-1328
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To Scotland...................................1328-1333
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To England....................................1333-
In 1333 England achieved permanent control over
the island. In that year, King Edward III invested local feudal authority
to the Montague family. The Isle of Man had never surrendered its local
traditions, including the regality invested in the leadership of the island,
and thus the Montagues and their successors were granted the style "King
of the Isles of Man". Here is a list of these later monarchs remembered
as such because they were recognized as such by the English Crown, and
because they form a succession of the last petty kingdom in Britain to
survive into near modern times.
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MONTAGUE
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William I (Earl
of Salisbury).................1333-1344
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William II (Earl
of Salisbury)................1344-1393 d.
1397
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LeSCROPE
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William III...................................1393-1399
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PERCY
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Henry I (Earl of
Northumberland)..............1399-1405
d. 1408
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STANLEY
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John I........................................1405-1414
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John II.......................................1414-1437
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Thomas I (Baron
Stanley from 1456)............1437-1459
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Thomas II (Earl
of Derby from 1485)...........1459-1504
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Title of "King" of Man relinquished (but not forgotten) 1504; "Lords"
of Man thereafter...
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Thomas III (Earl
of Derby)....................1504-1521
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Edward (Earl of
Derby)........................1521-1572
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Henry II (Earl of
Derby)......................1572-1593
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Fernando (Earl of
Derby)......................1593-1594
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Confiscation to the Crown.....................1594-1610
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William IV (Earl
of Derby)....................1610-1612 d.
1642
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Elizabeth (fem.)...............................1612-1627
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James I (Earl of
Derby).......................1627-1651
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COMMONWEALTH and PROTECTORATE
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Puritan Governor: Thomas Fairfax..............1651-1660
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STANLEY
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Charles (Earl of
Derby).......................1660-1672
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William V (Earl
of Derby).....................1672-1702
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James II (Earl of
Derby)......................1702-1736
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MURRAY
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James III (Duke
of Atholl)....................1736-1764
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John III (Duke of
Atholl).....................1764-1765
d.1774
In 1765, John Murray was successfully pressured
by the government into accepting a large cash payment in return for surrenduring
his title to the Crown, and transferring authority on the island to direct
control by Great Britain. This was done because the British government
was finding the island's thriving smuggler's trade between Britain and
Ireland, and the subsequent loss of considerable revenue, intolerable.
Thus ended the semi-independent Kingdom of Man. Even so, the Isle of Man
to this day retains considerable local autonomy, and British law enacted
in London is not considered binding on the island unless the island is
specifically named in the Act. Local authority is vested in a legislature,
the House of Keys, one of the oldest legislative bodies still in existence.
The following are the Governors and Lieutenant
Governors of the Isle of Man. In effect they are the viceroys of the reigning
British monarch on the Island. Local control, however, continued to be
exercised by the ancient parliament, the Tynwald or the House of Keys.
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Governors of Man
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John Wood................................1761-1777
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Edward Smith.............................1777-1793
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John Murray (Duke
of
Atholl 1774-1830)...1793-1828
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Lieutenant Governors of Man (acting
for the governors to 1828; acting viceroys thereafter)
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Henry Hope...............................1773-1775
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Richard Dawson...........................1775-1790
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Alexander Shaw...........................1790-1804
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Henry Murray (Earl
of Murray)............1804-1805
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Cornelius Smelt..........................1805-1832
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John Ready...............................1832-1845
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Charles Hope.............................1845-1860
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Mark Quayle (acting), 1860
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Francis Piggot...........................1860-1863
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Mark Quayle (restored)........................1863
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Henry Brougham Loch......................1863-1882
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Sir Spencer Walpole......................1882-1893
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Sir Joseph West Ridgeway.................1893-1895
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John Major (Baron
Henniker)..............1895-1902
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George Fitzroy Henry (Baron
Raglan)......1902-1918
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William Fry..............................1918-1925
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Claude Hill..............................1925-1932
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Montagu Sherard Dawes-Butler.............1932-1937
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Wm. Spencer Leveson Gower (Ea.
Granville)1937-1945
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Geoffrey Rhodes Bromet...................1945-1952
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Ambrose Dundas...........................1952-1959
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Ronald Garvey............................1959-1966
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Peter Stallard...........................1966-1974
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John Warburton Paul......................1974-1980
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Nigel Cecil..............................1980-1985
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Laurence New.............................1985-1990
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Laurence Jones...........................1990-1995
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Timothy Daunt............................1995-2000
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Ian David MacFadyen......................2000-
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